All tighten antonyms
tight·en
T t verb tighten
- fold up — a part that is folded; pleat; layer: folds of cloth.
- fall away — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- caving — the sport of climbing in and exploring caves
- ease off — freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort: to enjoy one's ease.
- loose — free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
- liberalise — Alternative spelling of liberalize.
- liberalize — Remove or loosen restrictions on (something, typically an economic or political system).
- give way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- bellied — having a belly, esp. of a specified kind
- drop off — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- beetle — A beetle is an insect with a hard covering to its body.
- laid back — relaxed or unhurried: laid-back music rhythms.
- bloat — to swell or cause to swell, as with a liquid, air, or wind
- beetling — a heavy hammering or ramming instrument, usually of wood, used to drive wedges, force down paving stones, compress loose earth, etc.
- give — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- let go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- featherbed — A bed that has a mattress stuffed with feathers.
- featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
- bug out — to depart hurriedly; run away; retreat
- bugging out — Also called true bug, hemipteran, hemipteron. a hemipterous insect.
- lay back — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- bulge — If something such as a person's stomach bulges, it sticks out.
- loosen — to unfasten or undo, as a bond or fetter.
- disenthrall — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disenthralled — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- let out — (of fur) processed by cutting parallel diagonal slashes into the pelt and sewing the slashed edges together to lengthen the pelt and to improve the appearance of the fur.
- idled — not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing: idle workers.
- cave in — If something such as a roof or a ceiling caves in, it collapses inwards.
- disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.